1. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria: Introduction 2. Manuel Duran: Cervantes' Harassed and Vagabond Life 3. Erich Auerbach: The Enchanted Dulcinea 4. Ramon Menendez Pidal: The Genesis of Don Quixote 5. Georgina Dopico Black: Canons Afire: Libraries and Life in Don Quixote's Spain 6. E. C. Riley: Literature and Life in Don Quixote 7. Bruce W. Wardropper: Don Quixote: Story or History? 8. Leo Spitzer: Linguistic Perspectivism in the Don Quijote 9. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria: Don Quixote: Crossed-eyes and Vision 10. George Haley: The Narrator in Don Quijote: Maese Pedro's Puppet Show 11. Self-Portraits, Miguel de Cervantes (Introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria)
Summary
This casebook gathers a collection of ambitious essays about both parts of the novel (1605 and 1615) and also provides a general introduction and a bibliography. The essays range from Ramon Menendez Pidal's seminal study of how Cervantes dealt with chivalric literature to Erich Auerbachs polemical study of Don Quixote as essentially a comic book by studying its mixture of styles, and include Leo Spitzer's masterful probe into the essential ambiguity of the novelthrough minute linguistic analysis of Cervantes prose. The book includes pieces by other major Cervantes scholars, such as Manuel Duran and Edward C. Riley, as well as younger scholars like Georgina Dopico-Black. All these essays ultimately seek to discover that which is peculiarly Cervantean in Don Quixote and why itis considered to be the first modern novel.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction, Roberto Gonz'alez Echevarr'ia
2. Cervantes' Harassed and Vagabond Life, Manuel Dur'an
3. The Enchanted Dulcinea, Erich Auerbach
4. The Genesis of Don Quixote, Ram'on Men'endez Pidal
5. Canons Afire: Libraries and Life in Don Quixote's Spain, Georgina Dopico Black
6. Literature and Life in Don Quixote, E. C. Riley
7. Don Quixote: Story or History?, Bruce W. Wardropper
8. Linguistic Perspectivism in the Don Quijote, Leo Spitzer
9. Don Quixote: Crossed-eyes and Vision, Roberto Gonz'alez Echevarr'ia
10. The Narrator in Don Quijote: Maese Pedro's Puppet Show, George Haley
11. Self-Portraits, Miguel de Cervantes (Introduction by Roberto Gonz'alez Echevarr'ia)
